1949 Movies

The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referre...

This short film from 1949 introduces us to the Gitxsan and Tsimshian First Nations of northern British Columbia. These peoples of the Skeena River exi...

Katri Vesa, a young woman from Helsinki, has fallen in love with Erkki Kovalinna, an ambitious young official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and...

A film commissioned by the Documentary Film Unit of the OMGUS.

Romantic melodrama with murderous rivalries, set on a newly-cultivated wilderness plantation in Guatemala.

A restless Chinese sea captain makes a stopover in Hawaii. While ashore, the captain befriends a Hawaiian-Chinese family and, at the mother's request,...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchantin...

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue.

"Around the World in Two Hours" is a documentary from 1949 directed by Rasmus Breistein. He traveled the world with photographer Arild Nybakken and pu...

Young women in Milan, rooftops and children. One of the women is possibly Margaret Tait. [shotlisted from MiniDV] gvs Milan main square, bustling cr...

An Ishiro Honda short film.